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Renne Abercrombie considers herself an actress. Every day she begins as a hard-working matchstick girl, and ends as a doting, newly wedded wife, each faced with diligence and a well-practiced smile. Both feel unnatural, but that is the way of things. In four months time she will be a mother, and that too, will be accepted with grace. But something in her rejects it. It is a wicked, selfish thought that grows stronger with each passing day. It claws its way past the act she knows so well, beckoning her to run away from her monotone life and into the dangerous streets of Liverpool. There are rumours of a creature lurking there: feasting on the bodies of men and children, but perhaps she deserved such a fate. A punishment for refusing her natural duty. So, when a young vampyre child turns her in his search for a mother of his own, Renne becomes determined to find any way out she can. The road is long and wretched, filled with Hunters and Witches set on claiming her head, and seemingly no cure in sight. Her only hope lies in a Witch who claims to be playing for both sides. One who says she can open a path to the Eldritch plane and destroy vampyrism at its very source. The only price? The child within her womb.ONC submission using prompts 99, 81, and 62.…

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Three months ago, a thick, white powder covered the Earth overnight. Not snow, but spores, hundreds of spores, all from an unknown source. Those that came into contact with the substance became spore-touched: violent, uncaring, every one able to turn into plants hundreds of feet tall and rip apart the world itself.Three months ago, Mya lost her humanity, and with it, everything she knew. Not all at once, but every day is another memory gone, all washed over by new instincts, identities, and wants. In a city slowly being torn apart by the massive vegetation of her new kind, her options either to join their collective, or escape with what remains of herself, her days are spent surviving, and hiding amongst Humans. Humans that will burn her alive the second she's caught. The only thing she has is a water bottle and the goals of her former self, but the likelihood of achieving them in a post-apocalyptic world is bleak enough, and that's if she can still remember them by the end of the week.So when another spore-touched offers to take her to a supposed safe haven, all with the hope that they both can be turned back, she takes it. Not because this new companion seems like the most trustworthy person, not because they can promise to stop her from becoming a monster-She takes it because there's nothing else to choose.ONC Entry for 2025.Prompts used: 68., 103., and perhaps a little of 134.…

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He was a hero. He was respected, beloved, with the title of The Thing of Eyes and Teeth won from battle that he could carry like a trophy. Thousands of the Stained that came over the mountains at the Crack of Dawn had fallen by his hands. Xoris could recite this to himself daily, but it was getting harder to deny the urges and instincts that lay restless beneath his skin, immoral, invasive thoughts keeping him awake.When a failed mission from the king wracks him with guilt beyond his handlings, Xoris leaves the kingdom of Korim to the edges of the crack in the sky. No quest, no final destination in mind, with the only Beast to slay being the voices in his mind, and the only treasure to seek, himself.…

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Esternia is a land of cycle. Of balance and rebirth. Whether Human, Eunsi, or Demon, the three territories know this, ruled by the Cearte to forever uphold the thin line between life and death. Esternia and Astren.But Gavin was born a Dávoln: a race of two souls whose very existence spites the gods' wills. He should've been killed at birth, but now it is far too late, he and his Demon sentenced to eternal punishment at the Cearte's hands. Escape was pointless, the enemies' power spreading far beyond the confines of his dungeon cell.That is, until he meets Aoife, a girl with strange, purple fire that defies all rules of magik. She is ridiculous, naive even, but she is powerful: enough to get him out of there. Enough to challenge the very system the Cearte fight so hard to protect.And after all, it's not as though Demons are the only ones who can form deals.…

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Twenty seven years ago, Witches came out from hiding. Tired of being misunderstood, of being told as scary bedtime stories to kids, and being offended every Halloween by some green-faced girl knocking on their door, they opened their whereabouts to the public. It took a while to get there, but the laws are pretty fair by today's standards. We have our magik, they have their electricity, their technology, their science...I suck at science.Crow is a rebellious young Witch in a world full of social changes. Riots are always out in the streets, laws are changing left and right to make way for new magik, but honestly, Crow has bigger things to worry about. Every witch has one power, unique to them, and he should have figured it out already. He's not even sure if he wants to know anymore. Maybe at this point it would be better to just forget it all and become an archeologist like he's always dreamed.However, when he is found to be the last Apothecary, a long forgotten way of magik, he is flung full-force into the world of Witches, and from there, all the politics he's tried so long to avoid. Now he must pick a side, Human, or Witch, before their fight destroys everything and everyone he cares for.…

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"All can be found in the Ocean of Dreams."Felis, a young Cait Sith boy, has always lived on the island of Crisol. A shame, considering that in an entire ocean created by the very dreams of their Goddess, he's got to live on the one that's just a small fishing town. Other islands are said to have relics, magic, even their own rules and people like none he's ever seen. Unfortunately though, most of his adventures are tied to skipping school and roaming the marketplace, only pirates allowed to brave the waters beyond Crisol's shores. That is, until a bounty forces him to flee the orphange and stowaway on a pirate ship oceanbound. Grace, the captain, doesn't seem too pleased to have an unauthorized addition to her crew, but, so long as he agrees to help out and not cause too much trouble, she allows him to stay.But, the Goddess' ocean is far more dangerous than the legends make it out to be, and only more dangerous with enemies lurking at every turn. Each one claims he stole something from the Ocean he can't return, and each are set on taking his life. And even while Grace promises safety to everyone aboard her ship, as they continue to follow, world after world, he can only be left to wonder how many chances a cat truly gets at life.…

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Tartarus is a dangerous place, even for those who know how to live in it. Every day is a battle for food, clothes, survival as the city patrol closes in, and no beast is safe under the Demigods' watch. Years ago, there were hundreds of sanctuary groups, all to protect the beasts. Now there is only one: Styx.Satyr knows it's a dangerous game, playing into their missions, but anything is better than being caught by the guards with their hundred hands. Anything is worth escaping with her girlfriend past the walls of Tartarus.So when a young Griffin man comes into her base offering her freedom, she takes it. Even if it involves breaking into the heart of the Underworld, facing every Demigod that wants the last Chimera dead... she takes it.THE AMAZING COVER WAS DONE BY @aceospades Thank you once again. ^v^…

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"Hearts must be wound, soulmates must be found."Such are the rules of most. Your heart must be wound up every night in order to keep your blood pumping, and that same key can fit into your soulmate's heart. But, for Evangeline Foster, the girl born with only half the pieces to her heart, she can barely hope to survive past twenty-one, much less feel love and find her one and only. Even with her father being an illegal Heartsmith, pieces can be hard to come by, and even harder after his arrest for the murder of his most recent customer, district minister Henry Bolleman.With only a map of her heart to guide her and a knife to protect her, Evangeline must work against the law, her own heart, and the assassins who want the minister's prized piece back. Seven pieces are still missing, and her clockwork heart is ticking.HIGHEST RANKINGS:Steampunk: #10 out of 5,4101860: #2 out of 50Unfinished: #75 out of 4,000Soulmate: #794 out of 16,500Female Protagonist: #703 out of 10,700…

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A short story is just a glance at another life. A small snippet of something that may or may never fully become a complete thought. These glimpses could wander for many years before becoming nothing more than they already were. And yet, here they stand.…